Consistency is the secret for Felix Rosenqvist, who started the 2025 IndyCar season with three top-seven finishes and his finest begin within the sequence in his second yr aboard the No. 60 Honda of , rating fourth within the standings. Now, because the IndyCar subject heads to Barber Motorsports Park for this weekend’s Youngsters’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix, Rosenqvist just isn’t determined to get extra instantly, as he feels the bundle – this yr in a technical alliance with after MSR ended a pairing with Andretti International – is already adequate and larger outcomes would come naturally.
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“I feel the rostrum at Lengthy Seaside was very shut, to be trustworthy. We had a gasoline studying error on the finish, which positively did not assist. We have been third for many of the race. I feel our strategy is, when you hold knocking on the door, hold qualifying nicely, have a very good race tempo, it will come to us. Not only a podium, however I feel a win in some unspecified time in the future,” stated Rosenqvist in a name with the media, together with Motorsport.com. “We’re not likely in a rush to get an enormous consequence or something like that. We simply wish to do what we do and enhance the little issues we are able to. It will come to us when the second is there. However yeah, I feel truthfully each weekend now it looks like we have now a very good probability of getting a very good consequence.
Conquering tough Barber
“I feel Barber is at all times a bit tough. It is a kind of tracks the place you by no means actually know what you are going to get while you present up. I am not going to inform you that I will go and win Barber. (However) there’s nothing that claims we will not. I feel we’re getting stronger each race. I feel we’re positively a constant podium contender now. I feel it will come. We’re simply going to maintain doing what we’re doing. Birmingham final yr was already a really strong race for Rosenqvist as he began fifth and completed fourth, which ended up being his finest results of a season that promised rather more on the time, however then didn’t ship. Each the motive force and MSR wish to make it possible for would not occur once more in 2025. “That is an enormous factor we have been engaged on within the low season. We all know we have had pace, which we had all yr, all season, final yr. We in all probability have been one of many strongest qualifiers within the subject. We maintained that half this yr. However I really feel like we’re higher within the races. We obtained to the purpose now, okay, we have now this pace, how can we get the factors. It is at all times within the small issues. It is pit stops, technique, tire deg, race tempo, simply the way you circulation by way of the weekend”, he stated. “I feel the work has paid off in that side thus far. I feel final yr presently, once we have been fifth in factors, it was sort of arduous to see what we might have accomplished higher as a result of I really feel like we simply sort of nailed the primary few weekends. Now it is extra like, hey, we are able to in all probability perform a little bit higher. Though we’re good within the factors, we nonetheless see some low-hanging fruit. That is the massive distinction. We all know now that we’re fairly quick. We’re engaged on all of the vital areas.
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A crew chief at MSR
As Rosenqvist prepares for his a hundredth IndyCar Sequence begin this weekend, the 33-year-old appears to be embracing his position as crew chief with Meyer Shank Racing after earlier experiences with Chip Ganassi Racing and . “I feel after I joined Shank final yr, it was sort of the pure factor to do, I assume. I do not know if I stated it, however I do not essentially really feel like I am calling all of the pictures. We’re a crew group. I feel all people’s enter goes in. We take all people’s enter and focus on it. Everyone sort of pulls their weight in several methods. However I feel in all probability having just a little extra confidence now as a extra routine driver has definitely made a distinction, like making selections when it counts. Generally you are in a difficult scenario the place you must go this manner, that manner on a setup. It’s a must to make the shot,” he defined. “I feel earlier than, my first yr in IndyCar, it was simpler to only do what Scott (Dixon) does as a result of he is skilled. Now you really must make that call. I feel the extra I have been in that scenario, it appears to repay fairly nicely, which supplies you extra confidence. It is sort of a spiral in a great way. Learn Additionally:
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